IISER MOHALI

2018 - 2023 : Assistant Professor, IISER Mohali

2017 - 2018 : DST INSPIRE Faculty, IISER Mohali

2016 - 2016 : Post Doctoral Fellow, IISER Trivandrum

2013 - 2016 : Post Doctoral Fellow, IUCAA Pune

2007 - 2013 : M.Sc.- PhD, TIFR Mumbai

2002 - 2005 : B.Sc., IGNOU New Delhi

INSA Young Associate 2025

N.R. Sen Young Scientist Award by the Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG) 2022

Gold Medal For Bachelors Degree in Science stream (2005), Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. 

1. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Are accelerated detectors sensitive to Planck scale changes?. arXiv e-prints, pages arXiv–2403, 2024.

2. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Are accelerated detectors sensitive to Planck scale changes?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12136, 2024.

3. Sandra Byju, Kinjalk Lochan and S Shankaranarayanan. Quenched Kitaev chain: Analogous model of gravitational collapse. Physical Review D 107(10):105020, 2023.

4. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Operator ordering ambiguity in observables of quantum cosmology. In The Sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG16 Meeting on General Relativity; 5–10 July 2021. 2023, 538–547.

5. Dipayan Mukherjee, HK Jassal and Kinjalk Lochan. Condition for expansion-collapse duality between Einstein and Jordan frames. In The Sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG16 Meeting on General Relativity; 5–10 July 2021. 2023, 958–966.

6. Ankit Dhanuka and Kinjalk Lochan. Behaviour of noise kernel in de Sitter and FRW space-times. In The Sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG16 Meeting on General Relativity Online; 5–10 July 2021. 2023, 2600–2607.

7. Arya Navdeep, Batra Navketan, Kinjalk Lochan and Sandeep K Goyal. Quantum theory of statistical radiation pressure in free space. , 2022.

8. Arya Navdeep, Mittal Vikash, Kinjalk Lochan and Sandeep K Goyal. Geometric phase assisted observation of noninertial cavity-QED effects. , 2022.

9. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Analyzing quantum gravity spillover in the semiclassical regime. arXiv e-prints, pages arXiv–2211, 2022.

10. Ankit Dhanuka and Kinjalk Lochan. Glimpse of Quantum Gravitons post the Last Scattering Surface. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09784, 2022.

11. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Analyzing quantum gravity spillover in the semiclassical regime. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.16426, 2022.

12. Ankit Dhanuka and Kinjalk Lochan. Unruh DeWitt probe of late time revival of quantum correlations in Friedmann spacetimes. Physical Review D 106(12):125006, 2022.

13. Navdeep Arya, Navketan Batra, Kinjalk Lochan and Sandeep K Goyal. Quantum theory of statistical radiation pressure in free space. Physics Letters B 834:137444, 2022.

14. Kinjalk Lochan. Unequal time commutators in Friedmann universes: deterministic evolution of massless fields. General Relativity and Gravitation 54(9):1–19, 2022.

15. Dipayan Mukherjee, HK Jassal and Kinjalk Lochan. Bouncing universe dual to the concordance model: Scalar-tensor theories in the Jordan frame. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02835, 2022.

16. Navdeep Arya, Vikash Mittal, Kinjalk Lochan and Sandeep K Goyal. Geometric phase assisted enhancement of non-inertial cavity-QED effects. arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.06595, 2022.

17. Jaffino D Stargen and Kinjalk Lochan. Cavity optimization for Unruh effect at small accelerations. Physical Review Letters 129(11):111303, 2022.

18. Kinjalk Lochan. Unruh-DeWitt detector responses for complex scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime. , 2021.

19. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Infrared signatures of quantum bounce in collapsing geometry. arXiv e-prints, pages arXiv–2110, 2021.

20. Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Sumanta Chakraborty, Sunu Engineer, Valerio Faraoni, Sanved Kolekar, Dawood Kothawala, Kinjalk Lochan, Sujoy Modak, Parameswaran V Nair and others. The Life and Science of Thanu Padmanabhan. arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.03208, 2021.

21. Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Sumanta Chakraborty, Sunu Engineer, Valerio Faraoni, Sanved Kolekar, Dawood Kothawala, Kinjalk Lochan, Sujoy Modak, V Parameswaran Nair and others. The Life and Science of Thanu Padmanabhan. arXiv e-prints, pages arXiv–2110, 2021.

22. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Infrared signatures of quantum bounce in collapsing geometry. arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06247, 2021.

23. S Bhattacharya, K Lochan and MS Ali. Unruh-DeWitt detector responses for complex scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime. , 2021.

24. Kinjalk Lochan and T Padmanabhan. A nested sequence of comoving Rindler frames, the corresponding vacuum states, and the local nature of acceleration temperature. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03406, 2021.

25. D Jaffino Stargen and Kinjalk Lochan. Cavity optimization for Unruh effect at small accelerations. arXiv e-prints, pages arXiv–2107, 2021.

26. Md Sabir Ali, Sourav Bhattacharya and Kinjalk Lochan. Unruh-DeWitt detector responses for complex scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime. Journal of High Energy Physics 2021(3):1–27, 2021.

27. Himanshu Swami, Kinjalk Lochan and Ketan M Patel. Aspects of gravitational decoherence in neutrino lensing. Physical Review D 104(9):095007, 2021.

28. Dipayan Mukherjee, HK Jassal and Kinjalk Lochan. f (R) dual theories of quintessence: expansion-collapse duality. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2021(12):016, 2021.

29. Navdeep Arya, Navketan Batra, Kinjalk Lochan and Sandeep K Goyal. Negative radiation pressure on an ensemble of atoms in free space. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13726, 2021.

30. Ankit Dhanuka and Kinjalk Lochan. Stress energy correlator in de Sitter spacetime: Its conformal masking or growth in connected Friedmann universes. Physical Review D 102(8):085009, 2020.

31. Kinjalk Lochan, Hendrik Ulbricht, Andrea Vinante and Sandeep K Goyal. Detecting Acceleration-Enhanced Vacuum Fluctuations with Atoms Inside a Cavity. Physical Review Letters 125(24):241301, 2020.

32. Karthik Rajeev, Kinjalk Lochan and Amit Vikram. Quantum Correlators in Friedmann Spacetimes-The omnipresent de Sitter and the invariant vacuum noise. , 2020.

33. Himanshu Swami, Kinjalk Lochan and Ketan M Patel. Signature of neutrino mass hierarchy in gravitational lensing. Physical Review D 102(2):024043, 2020.

34. T Padmanabhan, Sumanta Chakraborty and Kinjalk Lochan. Unruh effect for inertial observers through vacuum correlations. , 2020.

35. K Lochan. Decoding infrared imprints of quantum origins of black holes. , 2019.

36. Kinjalk Lochan, Hendrik Ulbricht, Andrea Vinante and Sandeep K Goyal. Rotation induced strong signatures of Unruh-like effect in cavity. arXiv e-prints, pages arXiv–1909, 2019.

37. Sumanta Chakraborty and Kinjalk Lochan. Decoding infrared imprints of quantum origins of black holes. Physics Letters B 789:276–286, 2019.

38. K Lochan. Generalized thermalization for integrable system under quantum quench. , 2018.

39. Kinjalk Lochan, S Sahu and D Narasimha. Gravitational lensing by self-dual black holes in loop quantum gravity. In The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, 12–18 July 2015. 2018, 4023–4028.

40. Kinjalk Lochan, Sumanta Chakraborty and T Padmanabhan. Unruh effect for inertial observers through vacuum correlations. The European Physical Journal C 78(6):1–14, 2018.

41. Sandra Byju, Kinjalk Lochan and S Shankaranarayanan. Generalized thermalization in quenched free Fermionic models. arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07742, 2018.

42. Kinjalk Lochan, Karthik Rajeev, Amit Vikram and T Padmanabhan. Quantum Correlators in Friedmann Spacetimes-The omnipresent de Sitter and the invariant vacuum noise. arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08800, 2018.

43. Suratna Das, Kinjalk Lochan, Satyabrata Sahu, Shreya Banerjee and TP Singh. Classicalization of inflationary perturbations by collapse models. In The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, 12–18 July 2015. 2018, 2759–2765.

44. K Lochan and T Padmanabhan. Non-vacuum states in QFT: Implications for Hawking radiation. In The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, 12–18 July 2015. 2018, 1730–1735.

45. Sushruth Muralidharan, Kinjalk Lochan and S Shankaranarayanan. Generalized thermalization for integrable system under quantum quench. Physical Review E 97(1):012142, 2018.

46. K Lochan. Black Holes: Eliminating information or illuminating new physics?. , 2017.

47. Sumanta Chakraborty and Kinjalk Lochan. Black holes: Eliminating information or illuminating new physics?. Universe 3(3):55, 2017.

48. Kinjalk Lochan and Sumanta Chakraborty. Discrete quantum spectrum of black holes. Physics Letters B 755:37–42, 2016.

49. Kinjalk Lochan, Sumanta Chakraborty and T Padmanabhan. Information retrieval from black holes. Physical Review D 94(4):044056, 2016.

50. Sumanta Chakraborty and Kinjalk Lochan. Quantum leaps of black holes: Magnifying glasses of quantum gravity. International Journal of Modern Physics D 25(12):1644024, 2016.

51. Kinjalk Lochan, Sumanta Chakraborty and T Padmanabhan. Dynamic realization of the Unruh effect for a geodesic observer. arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01964, 2016.

52. Kinjalk Lochan and T Padmanabhan. Extracting information about the initial state from the black hole radiation. Physical review letters 116(5):051301, 2016.

53. Krishnamohan Parattu, T Padmanabhan and K Lochan. Quantum evolution leading to classicality: a concrete example. , 2015.

54. Kinjalk Lochan, Krishnamohan Parattu and T Padmanabhan. Quantum evolution leading to classicality: a concrete example. General Relativity and Gravitation 47(1):1–39, 2015.

55. T Padmanabhan and K Lochan. Inertial nonvacuum states viewed from the Rindler frame. , 2015.

56. Suratna Das, Kinjalk Lochan and Angelo Bassi. Bounds on Spontaneous Collapse model of Quantum Mechanics from formation of CMBR and Standard Cosmology. In THE THIRTEENTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING: On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories. 2015, 1631–1633.

57. Kinjalk Lochan and Sumanta Chakraborty. Holography, mass area relation and discrete quantum spectrum of black holes. arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.09010, 2015.

58. Satyabrata Sahu, Kinjalk Lochan and D Narasimha. Gravitational lensing by self-dual black holes in loop quantum gravity. Physical Review D 91(6):063001, 2015.

59. Sayantani Bera, Sandro Donadi, Kinjalk Lochan and Tejinder P Singh. A comparison between models of gravity induced decoherence. Foundations of Physics 45(12):1537–1560, 2015.

60. Kinjalk Lochan and T Padmanabhan. Inertial nonvacuum states viewed from the Rindler frame. Physical Review D 91(4):044002, 2015.

61. Kinjalk Lochan, T Padmanabhan and Krishnamohan Parattu. Spontaneous evolution to classicalization in interacting quantum systems. Gen. Rel. Grav. 47(arXiv: 1404.2605):1841, 2014.

62. K Lochan and TP Singh. Trace Dynamics as a model for emergent spacetime. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 484(1). 2014, 012065.

63. Seema Satin, Kinjalk Lochan and Sukratu Barve. Noise kernel for the self-similar Tolman-Bondi metric: Fluctuations on the Cauchy horizon. Physical Review D 87(8):084067, 2013.

64. Cenalo Vaz and Kinjalk Lochan. Tunneling during quantum collapse in AdS spacetime. Physical Review D 87(2):024045, 2013.

65. Angelo Bassi, Kinjalk Lochan, Seema Satin, Tejinder P Singh and Hendrik Ulbricht. Models of wave-function collapse, underlying theories, and experimental tests. Reviews of Modern Physics 85(2):471, 2013.

66. Suratna Das, Kinjalk Lochan, Satyabrata Sahu and TP Singh. Quantum to classical transition of inflationary perturbations: Continuous spontaneous localization as a possible mechanism. Physical Review D 88(8):085020, 2013.

67. Kinjalk Lochan, Suratna Das and Angelo Bassi. Constraining continuous spontaneous localization strength parameter $łambda$ from standard cosmology and spectral distortions of cosmic microwave background radiation. Physical Review D 86(6):065016, 2012.

68. Angelo Bassi, Kinjalk Lochan, Seema Satin, Tejinder P Singh and Hendrik Ulbricht. Stochastic Methods and Dynamical Wave-function Collapse. arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.5535, 2012.

69. Kinjalk Lochan and Cenalo Vaz. Canonical partition function of loop black holes. Physical Review D 85(10):104041, 2012.

70. Cenalo Vaz and Kinjalk Lochan. Hawking radiation during gravitational collapse in AdS spacetime. 2012.

71. Kinjalk Lochan, Seema Satin and Tejinder P Singh. Statistical thermodynamics for a non-commutative special relativity: Emergence of a generalized quantum dynamics. Foundations of Physics 42(12):1556–1572, 2012.

72. Kinjalk Lochan and TP Singh. Nonlinear quantum mechanics, the superposition principle, and the quantum measurement problem. Pramana 76(1):67–91, 2011.

73. Kinjalk Lochan and TP Singh. Trace Dynamics and a non-commutative special relativity. Physics Letters A 375(43):3747–3750, 2011.

74. K Lochan, D Malafarina and TP Singh. Thermodynamics and the naked singularity in the Gamma-metric. arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4585, 2010.

75. Kinjalk Lochan. Schemes of Canonical Quantization of Gravity Implications for Semiclassical Results and Cosmology. .

76. Harkirat Singh Sahota and Kinjalk Lochan. Operator ordering ambiguity in observables of quantum cosmology. .

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